Ukraine News

Crypto donations, wartime innovation, regulation, and Ukraine’s resilient Web3 community.

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A bright candlelit memorial on Kyiv’s cobblestones features a framed black-and-white portrait of Konstantin Galich surrounded by glowing candles and red-yellow flowers, with the sunlit blue-and-gold domes of St. Michael’s softly out of focus behind.

Ukrainian crypto trader Konstantin Galich found dead after crypto’s historic wipeout

Konstantin Galich, a prominent Ukrainian crypto trader, was found dead in his Lamborghini as the crypto market experienced a historic crash.

5 months ago

NFTs

Someone donated a CryptoPunk to Ukraine, but it might be lost forever

Russia's invasion on Ukraine mobilized individuals all around the world in an effort to support Ukraine. After Ukraine declared they were receiving cryptocurrency donations, an impressive amount of digital assets were collected, including an NFT.

4 years ago

Rumors

Ukraine to issue airdrop to all crypto donors ahead of snapshot

A Twitter announcement today reveals that Ukraine will be rewarding donors with a special airdrop. The cut off time is 4pm GMT March 3, so new donations should be eligible for the reward up until this time.

4 years ago

Legal

Why Russia can’t use crypto to evade sanctions

Can the Russian regime and elite use crypto to evade sanctions? This is a heated debate among people in crypto, the media and some politicians. The answer according to crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky is no.

4 years ago

DAOs

Nation.io inaugurates launch with fundraising DAO for Ukraine

Nation.io helps people build custom DAOs without requiring any technical or crypto knowledge.

4 years ago

Culture

Ukraine post DOT address, hence Polkadot’s Gavin Wood donates $5.7M

Yesterday, after the official Ukrainian Twitter account posted BTC and ETH addresses for donations, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood tweeted he’ll donate $5 million if Ukraine posted a DOT address. In a remarkable turn, this is exactly what happened.

4 years ago

Adoption

Uniswap enables direct donations to the Ukrainian government

Users can now swap tokens for ETH and send them directly to Ukraine.

4 years ago

People

Polkadot’s Gavin Wood to donate $5M to Ukraine, if they post a DOT address

As donations are pouring into various charities to support Ukraine, people are lining up to contribute. In a rather criticized tweet, Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum, and founder of Polkadot, offers $5 million to Ukraine under the condition they post a DOT address.

4 years ago

Legal

Russia SWIFT sanctions “picked carefully” to avoid German energy crisis

As Western countries have agreed on imposing restrictions cutting off Russian banks from the SWIFT global payment system, affected Russian banks are “picked carefully” to minimize potential energy crises.

4 years ago